Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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In certain European cuisines, vegetables are cooked a long time. I take the term 'al dente' and use it for vegetables.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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If I grew up, you know, in the ghetto, like, and I wasn't taught any other way to talk or a way to act or other food to eat or just like anything like that, like, when I'm I supposed to do? You know, like, is there a class I'm supposed to take to learn how to be white, you know?
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I didn't have my first serious boyfriend until I was 23. Then after that, I went out with a guy I'd been best friends with all through drama school.
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I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.
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I've never met Charlie Sheen.
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A company is a group organized to create a product or service, and it is only as good as its people and how excited they are about creating. I do want to recognize a ton of super-talented people. I just happen to be the face of the companies.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
